Xie Shitou was angry at this time.

Wielding the hammer in his hand, he vigorously knocked on the arm-thick iron chain lock on the gate of the Chaoyang Brick Factory.

Seeing Zhou Silkworm squeezing in, he even handed the hammer to Zhou Silkworm: "If you come to smash it, my damn Lao Tzu won't believe it, and he can't even enter this gate." ”

Originally, he didn't want to do this, after all, he was the head of Zhangmu Township, and he had to pay attention to his personal image, but the boss of this Chaoyang brick factory deceived people too much.

If he doesn't come to the door to find trouble, he really thinks he's a bully

Inside the gate, dozens of brick factory workers couldn't help laughing when they heard Xie Shitou's words, and they also made mocking remarks, as if they didn't take Xie Shishitou, the township head, in their eyes at all.

When Zhou Silkworm saw this scene, his face was very dark.

But he didn't fight back, and after taking the hammer handed over by Xie Shitou, he whispered: "Big brother, Liu Xing is here, he said that he knows how to burn red bricks, and he is willing to give it to you as long as he has two thousand yuan." ”

"You...... Say what?"

"Liu Xing, he knows the technology of firing red bricks?"

When Xie Shitou heard this, he shouted out in a lost voice.

After reacting, he hurriedly pulled Zhou silkworm and squeezed out of the crowd.

This time, dozens of brick factory workers inside the gate were dumbfounded, and after they looked at each other, they hurriedly sent someone to tell Boss Wang what Xie Shitou had just said.

Zhou Silkworm's side, under the leadership of Xie Shitou, has come to Liu Xing's side.

There was no greeting, no nonsense, Xie Shitou asked Liu Xing: "Is what you kid said to Zhou Silkworm just now bragging?"

"No, I'm telling the truth. Liu Xing replied.

"Then where did you learn it?" Xie Shitou couldn't help but ask again.

"I don't think there's any need to answer this, right?" Liu Xing smiled teasingly.

"Yes, but don't lie to me, you kid, I'm so angry now! If you dare to lie to me, go back and be careful that I beat you!" Xie Shitou warned in hesitation.

"No, isn't it difficult to burn red bricks?"

"Do you need a lot of technology?"

Liu Xing couldn't help but spread his hands and asked.

As soon as these words came out, Xie Shitou was embarrassed to death: "This ...... I...... I ......"

Zhou Silkworm also smiled a little embarrassed.

If it weren't difficult, then Xie Shitou, as the head of the township, wouldn't be so anxious.

Today, at the gate of the Chaoyang brick factory, there will be no scene of gathering people to make trouble.

"Otherwise, let's not waste time standing at the gate of this brick factory, go back to the black market first, you prepare for me what I need, and I will teach you the technique of firing red bricks." Liu Xing saw that there were many pairs of eyes around him, and in desperation, he had to propose.

"Okay!" Xie Shitou heard that he couldn't ask for it, and after waving his big hand to let the people around him disperse, he took Liu Xing, Zhou Silkworm, Zhong Jun and others and walked towards the black market.

On the way, Xie Shitou still asked a little uneasy: "Liu Xing! Don't cheat me this time! Do you know why I want to buy the technology of the Chaoyang Brick Factory to burn red bricks? That is because the whole Zhangmu Township is going to start a big construction in the future, and the demand for red bricks is amazing, so I want to build one or two brick factories of my own to meet the demand for red bricks." ”

"That's a good thing. Liu Xing nodded.

From the early 80s to the late 90s, it was indeed the time when the demand for red bricks was at its highest.

Those brick factory owners, so to speak, made a lot of money with the technology of firing red bricks.

"What a! I didn't want to build a brick factory, because I'm too busy to have the time. Xie Shitou cried with a sad face: "But do you know how hateful this Boss Wang is, he actually sat on the ground and raised the price, knowing that I needed a lot of red bricks, first from three cents to a red brick, it rose to five points, and now it has risen from five points to eight points." ”

"Huh?"

"This Boss Wang is really a villain. Liu Xing shook his head in a daze: "Then there are no red bricks in other towns? We can go to other places to transport red bricks! As long as we have money, are we afraid that there will be no red bricks?"

"You really don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and this red brick is transported from other places, and the freight is an astronomical amount!" Xie Shitou sighed: "Besides, now the red bricks of brick factories in other places are also in short supply, and you need a ticket issued by the local government to buy bricks!"

"And in the entire HY urban area, at present, only the brick shipment of Boss Wang's brick kiln is the largest, and other brick factories can't open kilns a few times a month. Zhou silkworm followed and said.

"That's it!" Liu Xing nodded thoughtfully.

From what Xie Shitou and Zhou Silkworm said just now, he came to a very important message.

That is, the technology of firing red bricks in 82 was still quite immature, and it had not yet spread.

This has led to the price of red bricks skyrocketing, otherwise in a few decades, no, ten years from now, it will be almost impossible.

He remembered the red bricks in the nineties, and the price was only three cents a piece!

In the early eighties, he dared to ask for eight cents a piece, and this Boss Wang really dared to speak.

Thinking of this, Liu Xing said seriously: "Brother Xie, let's not talk nonsense, you ask people to buy me ten tons of cement, and a few trucks of sand back to the market, by the way! There are also four millimeters of rebar, you can also buy me dozens of them, as for the firing of red bricks, all the red bricks will be handed over to me, and I promise to burn the red bricks for you within three days." ”

"Okay!" Xie Shitou turned his head to look at Zhou Silkworm and Zhong Jun on the side: "You two will go to buy the things Liu Xing needs for me, and I'll let Xiao Li send the money later." ”

"Good!"

"Let's go!"

Zhong Jun took Zhou Silkworm and walked towards the black market first.

And Xie Shitou took Liu Xing, this is parting ways, and went to a small mountain pass next to the black market.

When I walked into the col, I realized that there were many villagers making brick embryos, and looking at the rows of brick embryos piled up in the surrounding open space, I was afraid that I had been producing brick embryos for a long time.

It's a pity that although the number of brick embryos is large, there is not a single fired red brick.

Liu Xing looked at it and smiled, reached out and picked up a brick embryo to check it, and saw that the ingredients were all very sticky yellow mud, so he couldn't help but nod approvingly.

Xie Shitou said: "Liu Xing, I can say this in this small brick factory now, I want people and money, but I just don't have the technology to burn the kiln!"

"You see, you see. Xie Shitou pulled Liu Xing to the open space in the east, and stretched out his finger to point to an abandoned brick kiln: "This brick kiln was piled up three days ago, and a foreign master was specially invited to give guidance, but the result! The burned bricks shattered with my hands, and I almost didn't get angry to death." ”

"If the heat is not enough, the quality of the red bricks burned is certainly not good. Liu Xing couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "Brother Xie, don't complain to me, if you want to burn red bricks, then quickly call me a dozen people to come over, be smarter, I will teach this time, but there will be no next time." ”

It's not that he is high, but the infrastructure construction in the bazaar is inseparable from him, and the wine filling equipment of Hengshui Distillery also needs him to preside over the overall situation!

Xie Shitou naturally knew these inside stories, and immediately hurriedly asked a strong man in black beside him to call someone, while he himself asked, "Do you need anything else?" Say it together, and I will let people prepare." ”

"You also need firewood, the more the better, anyway, you will have to burn red bricks later. Liu Xing said.

"Yes, yes, a lot!" Xie Shitou replied.

"You also need a briquette, which is the same size as the red brick, but it's a square, which is twenty-four centimeters times twenty-four centimeters, and the thickness is four centimeters. Liu Xing thought for a while and said, "By the way, you still need ten millimeters of rebar, and the length will be about fifty meters." ”

"Rebar is easy to do, but this briquette ......" Xie Shitou scratched his head in embarrassment: "I'll let people do it, but how much does it take?"

"At least five hundred. Liu Xing replied.

"So much?" Xie Shitou was anxious, after all, the master he invited before, but he never said that he needed briquettes!

And the word briquette, he also heard it for the first time.

Liu Xing saw Xie Shitou's thoughts, and shook his head with a light smile: "Don't be entangled, hurry up and let someone prepare briquettes, this is a necessity, you can't cut corners, and the kind of coal mine that you don't want to throw away the coal lumps, you can also get a car over, it will be of great use when the time comes." ”

"Okay, okay, okay!" Xie Shitou was afraid that the people under his hands would not be able to do this well, so after he told Liu Xing, he went to deal with it himself.

Liu Xingmu sent Xie Lion's head away, and when he turned around, he saw that the strong man in black had brought nearly twenty strong men, and he was idle at the moment, so he took them to the open space on the side: "You are all brothers that Brother Xie can trust, so I won't say much nonsense, and then I will teach you the correct way to place the brick kiln, but the ugly words I said are ahead, this method is very technical, and you can't pass it on if you learn it." ”

This is obviously a frightening statement, but the intention is very large.

That is, he didn't want the kiln technology he taught to leak out, after all, this is a professional knowledge that will only be available in ten years.

He can benefit the people of Zhangmu Township, but he doesn't want to cheapen those out-of-town bosses who make a windfall by burning red bricks.

This is not his cautious eye, but he opened a brick factory in HY City, and most of them are outsiders.

They have technology, which Liu Xing does not deny.

He wants to make money without a conscience.

Then he's going to boycott it.

Seeing Liu Xing say this, the strong man in black hurriedly drove away more than a dozen strong men, leaving only nine people.

Liu Xing looked at this scene and smiled: "Big brother, there are fewer of these people, you have to find me a few more!"

"Good! good!" The strong man in black hurriedly ran to find someone.

Liu Xing rolled up his sleeves: "The nine of you all use bucket trucks to drag bricks over, and I will show you the first layer of the brick kiln now." ”

Seeing Liu Xing say this, the nine strong men hurriedly went to the roadside tractor.

Liu Xing saw that there were a lot of weeds on the ground, so he picked up the hoe on the side and cleaned it up.

Just when it was almost time to clean up, Xie Shitou came back with an excited smile on his face: "Haha...... Liu Xing: Zhong Jun told me just now, where is the boss who sells briquettes and clay tiles you want, but the size is a little smaller, I don't know if I can use it?"

"Yes. Liu Xing replied affirmatively.

"That's good, I'll call someone to transport it right away, as for the lumps, they are on the black market, a lot of them, you can have as many as you want." Xie Shishi's head rolled up his sleeves: "You don't have to do any work with me today, just command." ”

"Then you pour me a cup of tea first, I'm dying of thirst. Liu Xing said with a smile.

"......" Although Xie Shitou's face was a little dark when he heard this, he still hurriedly did it.

When he came back, he not only had an extra pot of tea in his hand, but also a large bundle of banknotes, "Liu Xing, you told Zhou Silkworm before that you would sell me the technology of firing brick kilns for 2,000 yuan, and I can't owe this money, give." ”

"You're really giving it! I'm kidding. Liu Xing took the teapot, but he didn't ask for the money: "You can keep this money for the benefit of the people of Zhangmu Township! ”

"Hahaha...... I like your kid's character. Xie Shitou was not pretentious, handed the money to the strong man in black on the side, and explained softly.

Liu Xing didn't meddle in things, but began to set up the position of the first layer of the brick kiln.

Seeing that the briquettes and lumps had not yet arrived, he even walked to Xie Shitou's side: "Big brother, don't worry about other things, go and transport the briquettes and lumps first, now that all the materials are available, and the manpower is enough, I want to build the brick kiln before tonight." ”

"Okay! good!" When Xie Shitou heard this, he hurriedly ordered the strong man in black to do it.

As for himself, he followed Liu Xing to ask about the details that need to be paid attention to when firing red bricks.

Liu Xing naturally knows everything and says everything.

This made Xie Shitou taken aback.

Only then did he know that Liu Xing, a kid, had a lot more knowledge in his stomach than him, the township chief.

Just as he was about to use a notebook to write down everything Liu Xing said, the strong man in black led someone to transport the first car of briquettes and a tractor coal lump in a bucket truck.

Seeing this, Liu Xing hurriedly took them to the open space, and then instructed the people around him to place the brick embryo shape, and told them that the briquettes should be placed in the order of ten bricks and one briquette, in the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and a few air outlets should be set aside.

As for what it was used for, Liu Xing didn't say.

After the first layer of circular brick kiln shapes was placed, people put the coal lumps in those air outlets.

Seeing this, some villagers who were making brick embryos stopped their work and came up to watch the excitement.

After all, Liu Xing's shape of placing the brick kiln was very unique, and they had never seen it before.

This made Xie Shitou a little annoyed: "What do you see, don't you hurry back to do things, wait until there is no brick kiln, I will throw you all in and burn." ”

Although these words were a little ugly, none of the villagers who watched the excitement were afraid, but laughed.

Because they knew that Xie Shitou was joking, and after a few strange screams, they quickly dispersed one by one.

"The shape of the second layer of bricks is the same as that of the first layer, but the order of the air outlet and the briquette should be changed, remember! Liu Xing saw that more than a dozen villagers didn't need him to explain, so he began to put up the second layer of brick embryos on the brick kiln, and reminded him loudly.

"Got it. ”

"Don't worry, what do you tell us to do, we will definitely not mess around. ”

Several villagers even said.

Liu Xing breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and after reaching out to wipe the sweat on his face, he came to the brick kiln and personally commanded.

Xie Shitou followed behind with a teapot, handing over two bowls of tea from time to time.

This made many villagers feel envious, after all, not everyone can let Xie Shishi serve tea and water.

And over time, the height of the brick kiln suddenly rose to two meters.

More than a dozen villagers still wanted to put up bricks and briquettes, but they were stopped by Liu Xing, who looked at Xie Shitou: "What about the ten-millimeter rebar I want! ”

The height of the brick kiln is generally four to five meters, and some are even as high as six meters.

At such a height, if it is not fixed without rebar bundling, if it falls apart, or the kiln is blown up when the red bricks are fired, it is not only the brick embryo that will be lost, but also the personnel will be injured, so this process is indispensable.

Seeing Liu Xing say this, Xie Shitou hurriedly found someone to arrange it.

In a word, he will definitely try his best to satisfy Liu Xing what he wants.

Busy time always flies quickly, and in a flash it is late in the evening.

Under the supervision of Liu Xing, the brick kiln was finally built.

Its shape is somewhat like a bunker, and it looks particularly dazzling in the light of the setting sun.

Liu Xing, who was standing on the top of the kiln, after checking the air outlet, shouted to Xie Shitou on the ground: "Hurry up and ask someone to transport the firewood, try to fill the cave as much as possible, time is running out, and strive to light the fire before dark." ”

"Haole!" Xie Shitou hurriedly asked the surrounding villagers to act.

After all, after working for most of the day, it is only one last step.

Liu Xing climbed down along the air outlet, and after returning to the ground safely, he reached out and patted the dust on his body: "Brother Xie, I don't know the people you have here, so before lighting the fire, you must gather them all one by one, otherwise there will be people in the brick kiln who don't come out, and it will be a big trouble." ”

"How is this possible, they won't be lazy. Xie Shitou even reassured.

"You don't have to be lazy, you have to do it too. Liu Xing said seriously.

This is not a shelf for him, but a villager before his rebirth burned the living in the brick kiln when he was burning the kiln.

Although the probability of such a situation is very small, but the first time the kiln is fired, he must be reminded.

Otherwise, if something happens later, it will be too late.

Seeing Liu Xing say this, Xie Shitou had no choice but to do so.

Let people get into the air outlet and shout a few words loudly inside.

I thought that all the people would have come out a long time ago.

Who would have expected that shouting and shouting a short villager ran out of the east air outlet in a panic, and there was still some saliva under his mouth.

Apparently, the guy fell asleep in the brick kiln.

When Xie Shitou saw this scene, he was not lightly angry, and he stepped forward and kicked the short villager fiercely: "Wang Zhongbu, you don't want to live anymore?

"Township Chief, I'm ...... I didn't mean to. Wang Zhongbu hugged his head and cried with a sad face: "I will never dare next time, I will never dare again." ”

"Hmph, I'm not going to let you have a next time for someone like you. With a wave of his hand, Xie Shitou let the strong man in black on the side take Wang Zhongbu away.

Liu Xing looked at this scene and smiled teasingly: "Okay, okay! Brother Xie, don't be angry, as long as the person is fine, hurry up and add firewood to the brick kiln, it will be very inconvenient to light the kiln when it gets dark." ”

"Okay!" Xie Shitou hurriedly beckoned the villagers around him to take action.

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